Wingdings font available for selection, but cannot actually use in PDF reports

In setting a Column rule, I have set the rule to Always Use a specific font, Wingdings, for data in that column. (Regular fonts elsewhere). But when I import an Excel sheet that has a Wingdings up arrow in it, I get an O with a slash when writing to a temporary or permanent PDF file. But it correctly outputs the up arrow when writing to a Word file.

Is there any fix so that outputting to PDFs will recognize the Wingding font?

Also, is there any way to embed a character code in Alteryx output using the Formula or other tools?

Thanks.

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csmith11

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Issue-with-PNG-PDF-output-for-special-character/td-p/141935

Unfortunately, Alteryx doesn't appear to render WingDings very well to PDFs.

The rending of WingDings to PDF is a common issue across the internet with other programs as well.

My thoughts would be to write to Word first then run a script that'll convert your word Document into a PDF.

https://superuser.com/questions/1523869/batch-convert-docx-files-to-pdf

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csmith11

Does outputting to non temporary pdf show any difference?

csmith11

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Issue-with-PNG-PDF-output-for-special-character/td-p/141935

Unfortunately, Alteryx doesn't appear to render WingDings very well to PDFs.

The rending of WingDings to PDF is a common issue across the internet with other programs as well.

My thoughts would be to write to Word first then run a script that'll convert your word Document into a PDF.

https://superuser.com/questions/1523869/batch-convert-docx-files-to-pdf

CharliePII

Does not seem to work for Excel Either ?

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